hashing uuids?

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hashing uuids?

matthewmueller opened this issue 8 years ago · 2 comments

I saw that hashid intentionally doesn't support encoding strings because it's not secure, but I was wondering about hashing uuids as a way to shorten them (not for security). is that possible with this library? thanks!

Answer 1 · 2017-03-14T07:32:35.000Z

I don't really get what you want, UUIDs are already numbers, totalling 128 bits IIRC, but in text form. So you might as well encode this into a hashid :)

Answer 2 · 2017-03-14T07:36:12.000Z

Hey, thanks for your response!

What I was looking to do was take my database ID (a UUID) and make a short code for it using hash id.

IIRC, I realized that hashids != short ids, meaning that if i turn a UUID from base64 to base10 and then pass it into the hashid function, it'll still be a huge hash haha.